My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

Jump, take that flight, and build your wings on the way down.

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.